10 ideas
22140 | The greatest philosophers are methodical; it is what makes them great [Grice] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |